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Psychology chapter 6 notes
Keys to consciousness- wakefulness and awareness
What is consciousness?
o Has to do with thought
o Awareness and wakefulness
o Aware of ones surroundings and of whats in ones mind at a given moment
o In the stage for the brain

Psychology Notes 09/12/16
Experimental studies- the gold standard
o Random sample- everyone in the population has the same
chance of being chosen
o Random assignment- each person in the population has an equal
chance of being in an experimental or a contr

PSY 1730 Week 12 Notes
Test anxiety
What is stress?
(a stat of tension that occurs when there is a demand or pressure that tax and individuals ability to
adjust and cope.)
Is it always bad? NO
Motivates us, Keeps life interesting
Types of stressors
Frustr

Michael Averet
PSY 1730 Summer 2015
Its a litle hard to remember exactly why I missed some of these questions but on the ones I can
remember it is eye opening to go back and try to root out the reasons why I missed the question.
Unit #1 Test
For the most

CHAPTER 4: THE
DEVELOPING MIND
THEMES IN DEVELOPMENT.
Nature and nurture intertwined
Continuity or discontinuity
Universal or ecological development
THE ZYGOTE, EMBRYO, AND
FETUS.
Zygote: the term used to describe a
developing organism immediately followi

CHAPTER 3
1- Describe consciousness and different levels of it (80-81)
consciousness refers to our moment-by-moment subjective experiences.
The combination of a persons subjective experience of the external world and the
persons mental activity;
When we a

CHAPTER 2
The Biological Mind
THE TYPICAL NEURON
The Neuron: a cell of the nervous
system that is specialized for sending
and receiving neural messages.
Cell body: The large, central mass of a
nucleus, containing the nucleus.
Axon: the branch of a neuron

CHAPTER 10
Describe health psychology and the biopsychosocial model.
349
Health psychology: integrates research on health and on psychology
Biopsychosocial model: health and illness result from a combination of factors, including biological characteristic

CHAPTER 2
1.Draw and label the structure of the nervous system from figure 2.2
2. draw a typical neuron and label the cell body: axon: dendrite; and glia and
describe their function
axon: a long, narrow outgrowth of a neuron that enables the neuron to tra

CH 4 QUIZ QUESTIONS
1. Describe 3 prenatal phases of development
Germinal period: the period in prenatal development from conception to two weeks
after fertilization of the egg, when the zygote divided rapidly and implants in the uterine
wall.
embryonic p

Describe ways in which we make snap judgments about people
383
Body language and facial expressions,
Describe types of attributions we make as well as types of bias in those attributions.
personal attributions- Peoples explanations for why events or actio

CHAPTER 7
Describe the three phases of information processing in memory.
231-232
Encoding: changing information into a neural code the brain can use. Here the reader is
encoding the visual inputthe words and pictures on the page.
Storage: maintaining info

CHAPTER 8
Contrast analogical and symbolic representations
269-270
When we think about information, we have 2 basic types of internal representation. Analogical is when they have
some of the physical characteristic (images) and symbolic is when it consist

CHAPTER 9
Describe Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
309-310
Everyones needs can be placed in a hierarchy- survival needs placed at the bottom.
Describe drive, arousal, and incentives.
310-313
Drive- psychological state that motivates a person to satistfy a need

Jeff Jorgensen
Psy 1220
Guest Lecture #5
Mark was a good speaker and I was glad he talked about how to juggle priorities,
namely work and family. Other than when he talked about family things, his lecture wasnt that
different from the other people weve he

Jeff Jorgensen
PSY 1220
24 April 2014
Personal Roadtrip Experience
How did you decide who to interview?
As I tried to figure out who to interview I thought about what interests and skills I had and
then I realized (with some help from you, Prof. Jack) tha

Jeff Jorgensen
PSY 1220
Guest Lecture #2
I really enjoyed this gentleman that came and talked to us. I arrived late so I wasnt able
to get his name but I was really able to connect with what he said. I loved how he talked about
the fact that I would most

Jeff Jorgensen
Psy 1220
Guest Lecture #3
This guest speaker was really interesting in my opinion. I love sports and to hear his
experiences as a sports psychologist and working with olympic athletes was really amazing to
me. To hear about his line of work

Jeff Jorgensen
Psy 1220
Guest Lecture #4
I was not expecting Bob Miller to be interesting in the slightest before he started. I was
ready to spend the next hour daydreaming about other random things but he surprised me and
was one of my favorite speakers

Jeff Jorgensen
PSY 1220
Guest Lecture #1
I was glad to hear from the last of the colleges and what the majors are that they
offer because I have considered doing careers in a couple of these different colleges. I
have considered doing some form of enginee